“The publication of Professor Roy Colby’s dictionary of the Communese language marks a milestone in the study of Communism.

This dictionary is not a big, but a stupendous work: Without painstaking diligence and unceasing perseverance, and especially without exceptional intellectual understanding, both of semantics and Communism, the identification and ‘translation’ of more than a thousand Communist terms would have been impossible.

I confess that despite my own earlier labors in this unplowed field, the length of the Communese lexicon surprised me greatly. This fact alone shows that the Communese language is far more elaborate than was supposed heretofore. Communese also appears to be a living language to which new expressions are constantly added, while older terms acquire a richer and more complex meaning. Moreover … the Communese language has begun to develop ‘dialects,’ notably the specific vocabulary of Maoism.

Professor Colby’s dictionary has laid the foundation for the continued observation and translation of Communese and all its dialects, and has given us a tool through which the relations among Communists, and between Communists and non-Communists, can henceforth be analyzed more effectively.”